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[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 20.21]

Near trees, groves of thickets,
A single tree trunk, and a place touched by fire.
And with clarity, Joy, attachment and wrath
The "consonantal" rites should be well performed. [21]

[Tibetan]

ljon-pa dang-ni lcug-phran tshal /
sdong-gcig-dang-ni mes-reg-drung /
dang-pas dga'-bas chags-pa-dang /
khros-pas 办腻-濒颈 rab-tu bya / [21]

Commentary:

[Distinctions between the Places and Contemplations associated with the Attainment of the Four Rites (606.l-606.4):]

[The third part (see p. 1257) concerns the distinctions between the places and contemplations associated with the attainment of the four rites. (It comments on Ch. 20.21):]

In places which are respectively near (drung) forests of trees (ljon-pa-dang-ni), groves of thickets (lcug-phran-tshal) surrounded by trees, a single tree trunk (sdong gcig) and (dang-ni) a place touched by fire (mes-reg), i.e. a forest which has been burned by fire, in order to attain the rites of pacification, enrichment, subjugation and wrath, one should be endowed with (-pas) the respective attitudes of clarity, joy, attachment and wrath (dang-pas dga'-bas chags-pas-dang khros), in this way, the "consonantal" rites (办腻-濒颈), i.e., the four rites of ("liberating") skillful means, should be well performed (rab-tu bya).

There are some who explain this section also refers to union with four female consorts saying that the term "vocalic rites" (腻-濒颈) is implied, but there is no occasion for such an explanation.^[1]

[The summary of the chapter (comments on Ch. 20.22):]

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Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

On the sexual practices, which are clearly distinguished from the present rites, see above, Ch. 11, pp. 899-914, Ch. 13. 1006-1022.